[Qgis-user] qgis on linuxmint?

[Hugo]

Hi Alex,

Just out of curiosity where would those scripts be downloadable??? I've
been trying to find them but didn't get them.
Cheers,

Hugo

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com>wrote:

> In fact it's been done for you already
> http://live.osgeo.org
>
> The whole stack installed and setup together on a linux box. FYI the
> scripts used to do all the installing are available if you want to pick
> and choose what to install and it's all based on Ubunutu/Xubuntu so any
> variant of those will work.
>
> Enjoy,
> Alex
>
> On 05/01/2012 03:36 AM, António M. Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A quick question concerning QGIS (and other software - GRASS, R ...) on
> > Linux.
> >
> > I have a MAC but at work I am thinking a getting a new machine, running
> > Linux. After browsing the net for optional distributions, I came across
> > ArchLinux. It immediately caught my attention with the phrase "A simple,
> > lightweight distribution".
> >
> > The question is: the fact that it is "so lightweight", does it mean it
> will
> > be painstakingly hard to get every bits together in order to have all
> > frameworks, all dependencies, etc, working in order to have a fully
> working
> > GIS workstation (QGIS, GRASS, R, ...)?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Regards,
> > António
> >
> > ----------
> >
> > On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:06:27 +0200, Agustin Lobo wrote:
> >> Lee,
> >>
> >> 2012/4/29 Lee Hachadoorian <Lee.Hachadoorian+L at gmail.com>:
> >>> Agustin,
> >>>
> >>> I suppose it depends on what you don't like about Ubuntu. I also use
> > 10.04,
> >>> and am planning on upgrading to 12.04 but keeping the GNOME desktop
> >>> environment.
> >>
> >> Ii think you'll be disapointed...
> >>
> >> But if you're looking to get away from Ubuntu, what about the
> >>> OSGeo-Live distro? It's based on Xubuntu and comes pre-loaded with QGIS
> > and
> >>> a bunch of other GIS software, as well as other goodies like R. I've
> > used it
> >>> occasionally to test some of the applications that aren't in the
> regular
> >>> Ubuntu repos.
> >> That's a good way to get introduced to the different OSGeo applications,
> > but
> >> does not solve my problem.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> Agus
> >>
> >>> Best,
> >>> --Lee
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> > Hi Agus!
> >
> > I am using LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) since more than a year now
> > and I am very satisfied with it.
> > Before I used Gentoo Linux (which also worked fine) but Gentoo was too
> > much compiling time for me .. So I decided to switch back to something I
> > use on servers since a long long time .. Good old debian .. But as plain
> > debian is on one side rock solid - the other side is .. you always are a
> > bit outdated .. Thats the reason why I choose the rolling release LMDE
> > based on debian testing ..
> > I never had a real problem using it and can recommend it for everything
> > you want to do..
> > So on your side - if you want to switch away from ubuntu .. don't take
> > linuxmint - it is based on ubuntu anyway (ok they try to not use unity -
> > but the base is still the same).. just take LMDE .. debian, stable, with
> > newer software from mint..
> > (I don't want to start a distribution flamewar here - it's just that I
> > am really satisfied with it)
> > just my 2¢
> >
> > kind regards
> > Werner
> >>>>
>
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Hugo Martins
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